Chateau Laubade 2006 Vintage Bas-Armagnac 750ml frr a tribute that goes well

a tribute that goes well beyond marketing into something closer to genuine institutional memory

and powdered sugar-dusted funnel cake leap from the glass of this carnivalesque whiskey — far from one note

The finished spirit is bottled in distinctive hand-blown glass bottles

There is also some hint of smoke

Chateau Laubade 2006 Vintage Bas-Armagnac 750ml frr a tribute that goes wellCharles Neal, in his definitive guide to Armagnac, notes that Chteau de Laubade cultivates 260 acres of planted grapes making it the largest Armagnac producing property by far. That scale is worth understanding correctly, because it does not mean what it might initially suggest. The largest Armagnac estate is still tiny by the standards of the broader spirits world. And within that scale, Laubade operates with a stratified quality philosophy that the